Re: [PHP] process creation

2009-01-23 Thread Per Jessen
bruce wrote: > A simple question (or so I thought). > > Does php allow an app to create/start a process/application that can > continue to run on its own, after the initiating program/app > terminates? Generally yes, but it's partially up to the spawned process to completely detach itself. > It

RE: [PHP] process creation

2009-01-23 Thread bruce
lto:torokal...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 10:09 AM To: bruce Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] process creation 2009/1/23 bruce > A simple question (or so I thought). > > Does php allow an app to create/start a process/application that can > continue to ru

Re: [PHP] process creation

2009-01-23 Thread Török Alpár
2009/1/23 bruce > A simple question (or so I thought). > > Does php allow an app to create/start a process/application that can > continue to run on its own, after the initiating program/app terminates? > > It appears that the spawning/forking functions might work, but the child > apps would be i

Re: [PHP] process creation

2009-01-23 Thread Alexandre Gaigalas
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, bruce wrote: > A simple question (or so I thought). > > Does php allow an app to create/start a process/application that can > continue to run on its own, after the initiating program/app terminates? > > It appears that the spawning/forking functions might work, b

[PHP] process creation

2009-01-23 Thread bruce
A simple question (or so I thought). Does php allow an app to create/start a process/application that can continue to run on its own, after the initiating program/app terminates? It appears that the spawning/forking functions might work, but the child apps would be in a zombie status, and couldn'